On Windows 8 at Bentley
The CIS Sandbox is sponsoring a Windows 8 Launch party on Monday at 5pm with Microsoft. The IT Client Services department just issued a statement about the use of Windows…
From Where has the Internet Evolved?
In 1999, the world chose Yahoo's Geocities as it's third most visited website. Ten years later, the once vibrant city shut its doors, and when that happened many people felt…
Flying through the Sandbox
Take a virtual tour of the CIS Sandbox thanks to YouVisit.com.
SkyDrive
It wouldn’t surprise if someone looked at the title of this blog and wondered what it could be because Microsoft did such a poor job marketing their cloud services (They…
IT 101 SAM Hint – Conditional Formatting Rules
For those beginning the Excel assignment on conditional formatting, there is one common problem that SAM often marks wrong that can also cause confusion for students. It sometimes takes a…
Parents Day in CIS Sandbox
Saturday, October 13th was a busy day for CIS Sandbox. Parents and families came to visit the open house in Sandbox and enjoyed the activities while learning more about CIS…
Google Goggles and Google Glass
Google Goggles is an app available in the Google Play store on all Android devices and recently has been added to the applle app store. Google Goggles allows the user…
Trends in Technology: Big Data
You may have recently been hearing about the words “Big Data” if you’ve been following news in the technology industry. It is a relatively new trend that is just beginning to make an impact and affects more industries than just IT. It can be seen being used almost everywhere from healthcare to financial services to telecommunications and even transportation.
So what exactly is big data? Lets start off with a few facts:
That’s a lot of data! The concept of big data emerges from this trend. However, it is important to realize that big data doesn’t only encompass the large amounts of data that firms have today, but also how this data is analyzed and interpreted. That is the heart of big data: what do you do with such massive amounts of data, how do you analyze it (what tools do you use), what do you analyze (what is relevant vs. what isn’t), and how can it help you find relevant trends in your industry. Through the business courses you’ve taken, you probably know that this kind of analysis can be very valuable to firms.
These data that are being analyzed can be pretty much anything. One might want to analyze the thousands of comments that people post on articles that relate to the latest iPhone 5 news, what is going on in the financial markets, which hot new phones are coming out soon, what are people saying about the presidential candidates, etc. Using these data, analysts can better understand what people think about certain products, where certain trends are going and which ones are starting. Moreover, big data tools are very powerful. (more…)
Free PDF Editor
As I was doing some research on my paper about PDF today, I found a great online PDF tool - PDFescape! If you need to create and fill form fields…